... that I actually skimmed over to perform my analysis allowed me to begin reading from two main angles. Either I could begin at the Table of Contents and read one chapter at a time - read a chapter, back to the Table of Contents, read another chapter, back to the Table of contents. This form I found very discontinuous and disconcerting. I could choose to begin and end with whatever ... chapter I so choose. While for a hypertextual work this porosity forms an essential ingredient in the whole process, for a traditional piece of literature I found this method very unsettling. The second man...

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... of the 1790's and her mother wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. After miscarrying a baby, she had dreams, one of which became chapter 4 of Frankenstein. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a gothic science-fiction novel told through the letters of Robert Walton, who, in his letters ... word choices are very formal and stiff in spots, very close to Shakespearean language, this example of formal, stiff language is from the beginning of chapter ten: "I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a g...

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... can be read on so many levels. In many respects it is a traditional horror story. As a reader we are first confronted with the typical horror scene at the beginning of chapter 5. We are cast into "dreary nights in November" and "rain pattering dismally against the panes". She certainly follows the convention in many respects, and successfully sets the scene and creates ... , were turned on their head as we came to the second half of the book and the monster spoke for himself Frankenstein's monster is first "born" at the beginning of chapter five. He has been hinted at before, but this is...

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... vengeful because the isolation fueled hatred and anger within him. Ultimately he just wanted Victor to experience the same pain that he, himself had had. The Monster expressed this in chapter 10 by saying "All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy ... time of animation by calling him a "fiend", "wretch" and "daemon". In the scene were Victor finally gives life to his monster he suddenly is not excited any longer and in chapter 5 he states this very clearly "I had desired it with an ardou...

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... has "pale yellow skin", which describes the non-human looks. The weather features frequently in the novel as a reflection of impending doom and tragedy, such as the opening words in chapter 5, where the setting for Frankenstein's monster happens on a "dreary night of November", with the rain, "pattering dismally against the panes", of Frankenstein's laboratory. In ... chapter 5 Frankenstein tried to create a beautiful being, but is disgusted by its ugliness. This is where Frankenstein abandons the creature at birth when it is most in need. Frankenstein also feels ... sickened by what ...

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... by the crowds and are banned for the reason of being different. This is the case of the wretch; he first broke the "standard" when he entered that town. In chapter 11 the wretch states, "One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted ... to not be accepted by the figure that created of him. Victor Frankenstein was one of the individuals of that community that saw him as an abhorred and evil. In chapter 10 Victor says to the wretch, "Devil," I exclaimed, "do you dare approach me? And do not yo...

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... , will I achieve; treading in steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation." Page 33 Victor says this in Chapter 3 as he is explaining to Walton how his chemistry professor, M. Waldman, ignited in him an irrepressible desire to gain knowledge of the "secret of life." Victor refers to himself in ... the same time, many questioned these humanist notions, stressing the limits of human capacity. Shelley details this theme in her book, making an allusion to the counter- humanist idea in chapter four when Vict...

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... not equal immortality. Through use of vivid imagery and irony, Shelley explains that no one lives forever, much like the possessions they behold. For example, he refers to the crumbled stone statue with only legs and head remaining, standing in the desert. The face is "Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell ... ...

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... himself to let go of his creation proving that playing god will unconsciously blind the consequences of his actions. Victor makes the most "memorable" decision in the first chapter of the book by choosing his "future destiny" (pg.63) in leaving his loving family in Geneva to go study alchemy, natural philosophy and rudimentary physics. "No ... ...

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